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ADRIANA DISMANADRIANA DISMAN

ADRIANA DISMAN Canada “Questions without answers must be asked very slowly.” -Anne Michaels The most ambitious ambition of my work is to create moments of livability. I understand the world-at-hand (“world” being a description of all matters affecting each...

CARMEN PAPALIACARMEN PAPALIA

Carmen Papalia Canada Carmen Papalia is a social practice artist who uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, the art institution, and visual culture. His work, which takes forms ranging from collaborative performance to...

CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDECHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE

Canada ᒥᐊᐧᐣ Cheyenne Rain LeGrande is a Nehiyaw Isko artist. Nanâskotam wikih the territories of the Musquem,Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Cheyenne is a part of the Skwachays Lodge artist residency program and has recently graduated from Emily Carr University...

ROCHDY LARIBI & CHRISTINE BOUVIERROCHDY LARIBI & CHRISTINE BOUVIER

ROCHDY LARIBI & CHRISTINE BOUVIER France DO NOT DISTURB “If ‘Luck smiles on the daring’ as the poet Virgil suggested, then why not emerge yourself to experience a unique immersive collective artistic experience. Dreaming of love in a hotel...

FATIMA JAWDATFATIMA JAWDAT

Fatimah Jowdat Iraq Fatima Jawdat is a young artist living in Diwaniya, Al Qadisiyah, Iraq. Her education and background is in theatre and fine art. Her performative pictures relay a profound sensitivity through visual metaphores to discuss feminist and...

JON SASAKIJON SASAKI

Jon Sasaki Canada On July 28, standing in the Fraser River delta, Waist-deep in water and equipped with rudimentary materials, basic hand tools, and negligible skills, Sasaki attempted to build a functioning boat that would allow him to extricate...

KAMIKAZE NURSEKAMIKAZE NURSE

Kamikaze Nurse Canada Kamikaze Nurse is a rock band featuring KC Wei, Ethan Reyes, Sonya Eui, and John Brennan. Named after Simone Weil’s unfulfilled humanitarian death wish, the band formed in Spring 2018, and have released their debut LP,...

LEE WEN TRIBUTELEE WEN TRIBUTE

Lee Wen Tribute Singapore Lee Wen went on his last journey… into the stars and into eternity on March 3. In tribute Snežana Golubović has collected one-minute videos dedicated to him. You profoundly touched so many everywhere I remember...

LUKAS AVENDANOLUKAS AVENDANO

Lukas Avendaño Mexico In a contingency my mother gave me birth in a land surrounded by mosques in Tehuantepec, the midwife put a machete to heat the fire and when a red reed was already red, I cut my...

MINEKI MURATAMINEKI MURATA

Mineki Murata Japan Mineki Murata is an artist based in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan. Murata’ s works mainly consist of his drawing performances, which give strong impact to the audience by executing primitive physical actions, as well as installations and...

PREACH R SUNPREACH R SUN

Preach R Sun USA Preach R Sun is a U.S. based conjurer and ‘fugitivist’ — “implementing social issues and political activism as performance matters”. Sun, working at the interface of art and activism, essentially describes himself as an activist...

TARI ITOTARI ITO

Tari Ito Japan Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep You have a motor neuron disease leading to muscle atrophy. Today, you despond of what you become unable to do any more, which you were able to do...

THIRZA JEAN CUTHANDTHIRZA JEAN CUTHAND

Thirza Jean Cuthand Canada The Future Is So Bright Cuthand’s work often deals with issues related to Indigiqueer/2 Spirit love, communities, and sexuality. She is currently grappling with larger issues of imminent climate change and it’s effects on multiply...